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Oct 6, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
It's Halloween night in 1963 and the police are called to a quiet family home in Haddonfield to find that 15-year-old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death by her 6-year-old brother, Michael. Fifteen years later, on the night before Halloween, Michael escapes from the psychiatric institution where he was being held and heads back to his old hometown to pick up the killing spree where he left off.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
Clint Eastwood Clint Eastwood is more than just a great actor, he's also enjoyed a very prolific and highly respected career as a director spanning more than 50 years. Eastwood is renowned for his unique minimalist approach to directing, preferring to maintain spontaneity and momentum by only shooting a couple of takes per scene. Many actors who have been fortunate enough to work with him have also noted how he doesn't yell 'action' or 'cut' on set, as many directors do, but rather lets the...
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
Season 22 of NCIS premieres this coming October. For those not in the know, the show revolves around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS), and combines elements of military drama and crime procedural with occasional action and a touch of humor. NCIS is the third-longest-running scripted, live-action U.S. prime-time TV series currently airing, surpassed only by Law & Order and Law & Order: SVU.
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Oct 5, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
The Exorcist (1973) First released in 1973 and based on the novel by William Peter Blatty, The Exorcist has to be one of the most controversial horror films of all time. The eternal battle between good and evil is a primordial connection between every living being on earth, which is why it holds such a deep fascination for creators and audiences alike. However, the religious connotations combined with the physical and spiritual corruption of a young innocent, that demonic possession films...
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Sep 28, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
This is the definitive ranking of every movie featuring late, great actor River Phoenix, from Stand by Me to My Own Private Idaho.
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Sep 14, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
Sylvester Stallone Sylvester Stallone is undoubtedly one of Hollywood's most resilient and tenacious actors, who, despite occasional lulls in his career, has starred in a box-office No. 1 film across six consecutive decades. In the past couple of years, he has also branched out into television, starring in the hugely successful Paramount+ crime series Tulsa King as mafia capo Dwight 'The General' Manfredi. Stallone's portfolio includes more than 80 feature films, and he has often been...
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
The general expectation when watching a good comedy movie is to have a laugh, or at the very least, feel some positive uplift, even when the story focuses on the more unsavory elements of life. The great Charlie Chaplin once said "life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but comedy in long-shot," which explains why most people can still see the funny side, no matter how grim the situation may be for the unfortunate character.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
From his very humble beginnings, Charles Dickens came to be regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. From the frail little orphan Oliver Twist to mean and miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, he is famed for creating some of the world's best-known literary characters. Dickens' stories were incredibly popular during his lifetime and are still widely appreciated today, with his 1843 novella A Christmas Carol being the inspiration for film adaptations for more than a century.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. The jury is out on the highly anticipated and just-released sequel to the much-loved Beetlejuice. It's hard to believe that it's 36 years since this kooky character from the land of the recently deceased burst from his grave to bio-exorcise the Deetz's.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
collider.com | Jo Charnock
Action Following on from the massive action movie boom of the 1980s, which introduced audiences to major franchises such as Die Hard, Lethal Weapon and Indiana Jones, the 1990s was a more transitional era for the action genre. Computer-generated imagery (CGI) was becoming increasingly more advanced, seamlessly melding together real-life actors with fantastical alternate worlds, seen in blockbusters like Jurassic Park and Independence Day. Of course, with the added expense this technology...
